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Never Take Sweets from a Stranger (1960)
Directed by Cyril Frankel
“...and then he made us play that silly game...”
Drama, Mystery, Thriller · 1h 21m
Peter Carter, his wife Sally and their young daughter Jean move to a sleepy Canadian village, where Peter has been hired as a school principal. Their idyll is shattered when Jean becomes the victim of an elderly, and extremely powerful, paedophile. The film was neither a box office nor a critical success, it garnered criticism for breaking a significant public taboo.
Cast
Patrick Allen
Peter Carter
Gwen Watford
Sally Carter
Janina Faye
Jean Carter
Felix Aylmer
Clarence Olderberry Sr.
Niall MacGinnis
Defense Counsel
Michael Gwynn
Prosecutor
Alison Leggatt
Martha
Bill Nagy
Clarence Olderberry Jr.
MacDonald Parke
Judge
Estelle Brody
Eunice Kalliduke
Robert Arden
Tom Demarest
F
Frances Green
Lucille
Crew
- Director
- Cyril Frankel
- Screenplay
- John Hunter
- Director of Photography
- Freddie Francis
- Original Music Composer
- Elisabeth Lutyens
- Editor
- Alfred Cox
- Producer
- Anthony Hinds
Details
- Release date
- 1960-03-04
- Runtime
- 1h 21m
- Genres
- Drama, Mystery, Thriller
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United Kingdom
- Production
- Hammer Film Productions